Collapsible display card



Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

UNITED STATES 1,467,624 PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HARLEY NASH, OF CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO LEE NASH, INC.,

0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY CARD.

Application tiled December 20, 1922. Serial No. 608,128.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that, I, JAMES H. NASH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Caldwell, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible DisplayCards, fully described and represented in the following specificationand the accompanying drawings, forming a partcf the sanie.

The present invention relates to a display card which may be providedwith printed matter, ictures, or packages attached thereto foradvertising certain objects.

The bodies of such display cards are frequently made of largedimensions, which involve considerable expense in the packing andtransportation of such display cards to the user.

The display card of the present invention consists of a single pieceembracing a foldable screen, formed of side panels and :i middle panel,a top-plate or so-called arch connected to the middle panel of thescreen, and Wings upon the ends of the top-piece adapted to engage theouter panels.

This construction is adapted to present most forcibl to the eyeinscriptions or articles upon the front panels and upon the front of thetop-piece or arch.

This effect is produced by the contrast of the front surfaces with asunken back-plate, and this object is attained by foldingl the card uponsuitable lines or creases to inge the parts together while permittingthe folding of the entire device in a very compact manner.

The three panels serve to hold the card erect when set upon a. fiatsurface, and supports the connected parts in a shape resembling an operifireplace.

The different members of the card are joined by creases and thus hingedtogether so as to fold into a space which may equal only one-fourth thearea of the card-body, thus greatly increasing its capacity fortransportation.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawin Fig.1 is a perspective-view of the entire display devices set up for use;Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 shows the body of thedisplay card with dotted lines- 18 indicating the folds of the card, andfull lines 19 indicating the cutting of the card to permit folding; Fig.4 is a diagram showing the screen-panels folded for transportation, andthe top-plate extended from the middle panel; Fig. 5 shows the panels ofthe screen folded, and the ends of the :ircli and all the parts foldedupon the front olf the middle panel; Fig. 6 shows the opposite side ofthe package ready for transportation; Fig. 7 is a plan of the displaycard crected; and Fig. 8 is a cross-section on line 8-8 in Fig. 1.

The screen is shown with a middle panel 8, extension or side-panels 9hinged to its edges, and terminal or front panels 10 jointed to theouter edges of the extension panels.

The top-plate 11, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, forms an upward extensionof the middle panel, being hinged thereto by a leaf 12 which forms theroof of the part resemblin the fireplace.

T e wings 13 are jointed upon the ends of the top-plate, as indicated bydotted lines oi: creases 14, and the adjacent edges of the wings andterminal panels are provided with tongues 15 and slots 16, to engage oneanother and hold the entire structure erected.

When the display card is erected, the Wings connect with the upper endsof the terminal or front panels, the said wings having a length lessthan the combined width of the extension-panels, as shown in Fig. 3, sovthat when connected, as just stated, the top-plate 11, the panels 13and the terminal or front leaves 10 are held in thc -same plane as thetop-plate. The extension-panels 9, when the display card is erected,slope forwardly from the hinged leaf 8, as shown in Fig. 7, and form arecess resembling a fireplace.

Such slope is produced by making the leaf l2 of less width than theextensionpanels of the scren, as shown at the junction of these panelswith the wing in Fig. 7, the lines representing the extension-panels,and the depth ofthe recess being determined by the breadth of the panel,as indicated at 12 in Fig. 7.

Fig. 3 shows the line upon which the parts may be folded to reduce thesize of the entire card to that of the middle panel 8.

Fig. 4 shows the wings all folded upon the farther side of the middleleaf 8, so that they are covered thereby.

Fig. 5 shows the wings upon thc toppiece folded over upon its innerside, the group of parts thus being reduced to the width of the centerpanel and formed with hinge-joints at the dotted lines 17, upon whichthe parts may be folded, making the size of the entire group when foldedthe 'same as that of the middle panel.

This effect is produced by making the toppiece not more than three timesthe width of the center panel, thus permitting the wings upon thetop-piece to be folded upon a line with the edges of that panel.

The top-plate may be properly termed an arch, as it spans the spacebetween the terminal or front panels, as shown in Fig. 3; but it will beunderstood that the precise shape and proportions of this arch-piece arewholly immaterial, provided it has foldable wings to make a detachableConnection with the terminal panels and to fold upon the bod of thedevice, as shown in Fig. 5.

T e structure is shown embodying a screen of five panels, but thoseanels are combined with the arch above in such a manner as to form adesign in which the individuality of the several panels is entirelylost.

The panels in this invention form frontplates, and a back-plate, andside-plates connecting the three, and such features are claimed hereinto include the essential elements of the invention.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what I claim hereinis:

1. A display card having a back-plate, side-plates, front-plates, and anarch all formed in one piece and shaped to connect the backlate with themiddle of the arch and the ront-plates with the ends of the arch, theWhole being foldable into a one` piece packa e.

2. A disp ay card comprising a paneled screen formed with front-plate, abackplate, and side-plates projected from the back plate to the frontplates, and an arch having a leaf connected with the back-plate, andwlngs hinged upon the ends of the arch, and provided with means forconnecting the said wings to the front-plates.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand.

JAMES HARLEY NASH.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that the State of incorporation of the assigneein Letters Patent No. 1,467,6 granted September 11, 1923, upon theapplication of James Harle Nash, of Caldwell, New Jersey, for animprovement in Collapsible Display ards, was erroneously iven asIllinois, whereas said State should have been given as New York, as ownby the records of assignments in this olice; and that the said LettersPatent should be read with this correction therein that the same mayconform to the record of the case in the Patent Oce.

Signed and sealed this 4th day of December, A. D., 1923.

[SEAL] KARL FENNING,

Acting Uomrmasoner of Patents.

